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Geopolitics, geography, and strategic history

This book addresses three interrelated questions: why does the geographical scope of political objectives and subsequent strategy of states change? How do these changes occur? Over what period of time do these changes occur? The theories of Sir Halford Mackinder and Nicholas Spykman are examined in...

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Main Author: Sloan, G. R. (Geoffrey R.) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London New York, NY Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2017
Series:Geopolitical theory series 4
Subjects:
Geopolitics
Strategic culture
Strategic culture > Case studies
Geopolitics > Case studies
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Table of Contents:
  • Geopolitics: Geography, History and Strategy: a Trinity of Relation
  • Classical Geopolitical Theories: Spykman and Mackinder
  • British Foreign Policy and the Heartland: Challenge and Nemesis
  • Britain, Ireland and the Battle of the Atlantic: Failure and Redemption
  • A Geographical Aurora: Geopolitics in the United States during the Second World War
  • Geopolitics and Containment 1945-1973: A Strategy without Limits?
  • The Geopolitics of China and the Pacific Pivot
  • Conclusions

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